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Monica Lewinsky is useful "as a palliative for personal boredom," while Saddam Hussein is useful "as the excuse for the continued American presence in West Asia and as a regional bully to checkmate fundamentalist Iran's geopolitical ambitions" (which had been why the United States "deliberately stopped short of unseating Mr. Hussein" in 1991).
The purpose of the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) is to assess the physical condition and functional status of persons receiving palliative care.
It was not intended to define or describe the specialty skills of a palliative medicine physician.
If one accepts the need for a corrective (or, depending on how one views it, is willing to live with a mere palliative), why not design one that operates in direct proportion to how segregated a state's schools are?
[ 35 36 37 ] . Certainly also the cultural background determines attitudes and view points to the goals of care and in which situations of "intolerable suffering" sedation is ethically acceptable [ 38 ] . In several retrospective and prospective surveys the reported frequency of sedation due to intractable symptoms in different palliative care settings ranged from 7-52% with increasing incidence especially for "existential suffering" [ 39 40 41 ] . Diagnostic criteria and clinical preconditions for the consideration of sedation in patients with far advanced disease have been described by several authors [ 42 43 44 ] , but aims, targets, types of sedation and decision making remain conflicting issues.
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